Trade and Industry

Southern African Development Research Network (SADRN) (24)

The Southern African Development Research Network (SADRN) was a broad-based policy and research network which aims to increase the supply of policy-relevant research in the region and strengthen evidence-based policy-making. SADRN is currently focusing on two themes: industrial policy and sector development at the regional level; trade policy and its linkages to pro-poor growth.

Maize is the most important staple cereal product consumed in the Southern African region. The purpose of this paper is to examine the origins of the global 2007/8 food price crisis and the impact this had on the trade in maize within the SACU customs union as well as to…

The paper has attempted to contribute to a key issue in the current debate on economic development: the link between trade and poverty. The paper focused on the impact of imported chickens on Zimbabwe's poultry industry. The general aim of the study was to find the impact of imported chicken…

In the era of globalisation, there is widespread recognition that knowledge-based industries have become a significant contributor to economic growth and development. To be internationally competitive in a global economy requires the creation of distinctive assets such as knowledge, skills, innovation and creativity. Knowledge has become an internationally recognized factor…

OrganisationServices Sector Development Thematic Working Group; TIPS, BIDPA and UoM

Publication Author(s)Verena, T. , Vishal, R. and Ken, P.

Countries and RegionsCommon Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)

The services sector is increasingly seen as a means to promote economic development and reduce poverty. It is becoming the largest sector, in terms of share of GDP and employment, in most developing countries. The services sector is highly diverse, ranging, from infrastructure services such as telecommunications, construction, transportation, financial…

OrganisationServices Sector Development Thematic Working Group; TIPS, BIDPA and UoM

Publication Author(s)Johnson Tsoro Maiketso

Countries and RegionsBotswana

Trade in services generally is viewed as a potentially viable option to contribute to the much needed economic diversification in Botswana. This study is informed by the ongoing policy discussions about the need to develop an educational hub in Botswana. It is intended to be a constructive contribution to these…

OrganisationServices Sector Development Thematic Working Group; TIPS, BIDPA and UoM

Publication Author(s)Manisha Dookhony;Lillka Cuttaree

Countries and RegionsCommon Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), Southern African Development Community (SADC)

This study focuses is on the movement of talent. There is already free movement of labour within the European Union and the CARICOM region, SADC aims to achieve this by 2015. We examine the Caribbean region where the Caricom regional initiative provided the enabling environment for intraregional migration to take…

OrganisationServices Sector Development Thematic Working Group; TIPS, BIDPA and UoM

Publication Author(s)Kara Mackay

Countries and RegionsSouth Africa

In the era of globalisation, there is widespread recognition that knowledge-based industries have become a significant contributor to economic growth and development. To be internationally competitive in a global economy requires the creation of distinctive assets such as knowledge, skills, innovation and creativity. Knowledge has become an internationally recognized factor…

OrganisationServices Sector Development Thematic Working Group; TIPS, BIDPA and UoM

Publication Author(s)Pooloo Zainah

Countries and RegionsCommon Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)

This paper employs a reduced form Solow Growth framework to investigate the role of public investment on infrastructure on economic performance for the case of Mauritius over the period 1970-2006. Given the non-stationary characteristics of the data, an error correction model is adopted. Public capital is shown to have significantly…

OrganisationServices Sector Development Thematic Working Group; TIPS, BIDPA and UoM

Publication Author(s)Albert Makochekanwa

Countries and RegionsSouthern African Development Community (SADC)

Given that the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) intention is to become a common market (CM) whereby labour and capital will be envisioned to freely move among the bloc's member states, the study investigates the extent to which the region is prepared for free movement of natural persons. The study…

OrganisationServices Sector Development Thematic Working Group; TIPS, BIDPA and UoM

Publication Author(s)Kwaramba Marko

Countries and RegionsSouth Africa, Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Through the analysis of trends in South Africa's higher education enrollment of Southern African Development Community (SADC) citizens over the years, the study investigates the extent to which the country has strategically marketed its educational services and positioned itself as the educational hub of Southern Africa. The analysis reveals that…

OrganisationServices Sector Development Thematic Working Group; TIPS, BIDPA and UoM

Publication Author(s)Charles Augustine Abuka and Kenneth Alpha Egesa

This study reviews the reforms undertaken in the financial sector with respect to regulation and access widening polices. The developments at the macro and micro level of the banking system are also assessed. Empirical analysis of the effects of financial liberalisation on growth by augmenting an aggregate production function with…

A number of research organisations around the world have recently attempted to capture and explain the impacts that biofuel policies have on agricultural commodity markets. Previously, food price inflation has gone along with the general inflation trend but this has changed. On the supply side the international market has experienced…

OrganisationServices Sector Development Thematic Working Group; TIPS, BIDPA and UoM

Publication Author(s)Yusuf Atiku Abdalla;Jimmy Apaa-Okello

Countries and RegionsCommon Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)

Significant reforms of the services sector have been conducted in Uganda since 1987, motivated, in part, by the common notion that efficiency in the provision of services can deliver productivity growth in all sectors of the economy, which in turn stimulates overall economic growth and development. Given that the demand…

Countries and RegionsCommon Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), European Union (EU)

With the EU sugar reforms, the overall economic weight of the sugar sector has fallen. The sugar sector's contribution to GDP is now comparatively small, around 1.9% of GDP in 2008. In this context, the Mauritian government and the private sector defined the Multi-Annual Adaptation Strategy (MAAS) to restructure and…

This project was designed to explore small-scale mining activities in Erongo Region of Namibia. The main objective was to explore possible contributions of small-scale mining to poverty alleviation in Namibia. The study seeks to achieve three specific objectives, namely activities of small-scale mining, the role of small-scale mining with regard…

Countries and RegionsEast African Community (EAC), Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Tourism is increasing becoming an important phenomena for developing countries and as such it affects the livelihood of many poor people. According to Yunis (2004), tourism is growing much faster in developing countries than in developed countries. However, its potential for poverty reduction has been insufficiently recognized and exploited in…

About 70-75 percent of Botswana beef exports are consumed in the European Union (EU) beef market. In 1997, the EU introduced a directive which made it mandatory for beef exported to the EU to be identifiable and traceable from farm to fork through a computerized system. Botswana then introduced the…

The focus of this article is on The SADC Trade Protocol aims for liberalization of all trade by 2012. Member countries have agreed to liberalize 85 percent of intra-SADC trade by 2008 and liberalize sensitive products by 2012. The article looks at whether SADC achieved its objectives with relation to liberalization and also tackles…

The Zambian economy has undergone profound reforms in the last two decades. It has transited to a market economy from the previously centrally planned economy. As part of the economy-wide reforms, the country's industrial and trade policies have also been re-oriented to suit the needs of the market-oriented economy. This…

The paper focuses on the conduct of trade and industrial policies in Malawi, their linkages and impacts on the performance of the trade and industry sectors. The study establishes that Malawi has gone through three stages of trade and industrial policy. From focusing on the production and trade of a…

This paper looks at the nature and extent of linkages between trade and industrial policies in Zimbabwe. The paper establishes that the trade and industrial policies are interlinked in Zimbabwe. The study indicates that trade policy is one of the implementation strategies of the industrial policy - further illustrated in…

This paper aims to establish the links between the industrial policy and the trade policy in Botswana. The paper finds that after gaining independence the Botswana government has deliberately targeted industrialisation as a strategy to overcome the high concentration of economic activities and welfare of the country centred on diamonds. The…